"Arizona fires back at US over immigration law; Countersuit says border isn’t being protected well" February 15, 2011|Jerry Markon, Washington Post
Governor Jan Brewer, a Republican, filed the unusual countersuit last week against the federal government, accusing it of failing to secure the southwest border against a tide of illegal immigrants. The lawsuit, or counterclaim, was filed as part of the case in which the Justice Department is seeking to have the Arizona law declared unconstitutional....
Legal analysts say Arizona has little chance of winning the federal lawsuit, which seeks a judgment declaring the government in violation of its obligation to secure the border and compensation for Arizona’s costs for detaining illegal immigrants....
Lawsuits against the federal government are barred in most circumstances under a doctrine known as “sovereign immunity,’’ and Arizona lost a similar lawsuit it filed over federal immigration enforcement in the mid-1990s....
Whatever its legal merits, the lawsuit reignited the political passions about the Arizona law....
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High court could strike down Ariz. campaign finance law
Kagan backs bank in Supreme Court opinion
It's a corporate court, no doubt about that.
Ariz. moves to restore transplant coverage
Anytime I see an article about transplants I think Israeli organ harvesting.
Father found guilty in Ariz. 'honor killing’
Let me guess: Muslim
Something else that makes me sick:
"The 5 ½-foot-long fragment of an I-beam was picked up from a hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport yesterday and will be trucked to Arizona for an April 1 dedication ceremony.
This IS a joke, right?
The Freedom’s Angel of Steadfast Love statue will incorporate artifacts from the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., sculptor Lei Hennessy-Owen said....
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Did they test it for thermate?
Another whitewash (in a way):
"The grass may be greener next door simply because of a fresh coast of paint....
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We all know with what color coat the AmeriKan newspaper comes.
